Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church is facing a local group's court appeal of its permit to build a 57-foot church with a 90-foot steeple at 145 Brattle St. The permit was obtained in spite of a general zoning law restricting the height of buildings in the area to 35 feet, presumably as an exception in a "hardship" case...
...drawn up, waiting for the explosion that -will thrust him into space. Blastoff. The roar swallows him; intense vibration courses through his shackled, layer-enveloped body. He is hurtling into the inky empyrean where the sun's rays give no light, where there is no such thing as height, where there is no up and no down -where, if he drops his guard for an instant, the irresistible forces of the cosmos will destroy...
...height of September's riots over the admission of nine Negro students to Central High, 1,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division were flown into Little Rock to keep order, and 10,000 Arkansas National Guardsmen were federalized to help them. Gradually, the paratroops were withdrawn and the majority of guardsmen demobilized. President Eisenhower's new order affects only 360 National Guard enlisted men and 40 officers still federalized and still on duty at Central High School to bar agitators and prevent incidents among the 2,000 students. Last week, as the last 400 guardsmen prepared...
...Sputnik was expected to make three sweeps across the United States tonight, from north northwest to south southeast, probably at a height of nearly 1,000 miles...
Both crews are about the same height, but the Syracuse squad is a little heavier...